Collar-fastener



(No'moael.)

G. W.- HARROP.

COLLAR PASTBNER. y

Patented May 23, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE W. HARROP, OF MANHATTAN, KANSAS.

COLLAR-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 498,168, dated May 23, 1893. Application filed J'nne 3, 1892. Serial No. 435,397. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GEORGE W,l HAEROP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manhattan, in the county of Riley and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hames, Collar, and Neck- Yoke Fasteners Combined; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the mechanism for fastening the hames, collar and neck-yoke abouta horses neck, and the objects are to construct a fastener to be secured to the collar so that, when the hames and neck-yoke are properly attached to said collar, the three may be secured or detached from about the horses neck by the simple movement of uniting or disuniting my fastener, thus greatly simplfying the operation of harnessing and unharnessing a horse. I attain these objects by means of the mechanism hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a View of a horse-collar showing the position and manner of securing my fastener thereto and Fig. 2, a vertical section of my device showin gthe operating parts thereof.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout both the views.

4 The collar A being severed at its lower end,

sleeves m fm, curved to conform to the shape of said collar and provided with abutments j and k, are secured to the respective ends of the collar which are inserted therein until they bear against said abutments. Plates a and b fit closely and are secured at the openings of the sleeves m m. The abutment la also serves as a means of resistance to springs g g which throw and hold keys ol d in position. Plate b is provided with casings h h to hold springs g g in their proper position. Said casings h h are provided with slots t' i to permit of the free sliding of plate f which bears f against the outer ends of springs g g and which is operated by a thumb-catch e whereby said keys, which are securely attached thereto, are withdrawn. To the outer side of said plate b is secured the hook-shaped lugs c c leaving spaces o o equal to the thickness of plate a. Plate a is provided with slots p p the length of each being equal to the combined thus permanently securing said hames .and

collar together. vThe neck-yoke is secured in position by placing the loop of the neck-yoke strap over one end of the collar before the ends are joined and fastened by my device.

To fasten my device, the side b having lugs c c is raised, said lugs inserted in slots 1o p and the two sides then pressed closely together, thus pressing back keys cl d. The side b is then pressed downward causing the parts to assume the positions shown by the dotted linesinFig. 2. The keys d d being thrown forward by springs g g prevent the same being accidentally thrown out of position. To unfasten the device, keys d d are withdrawn by pressing back plate f, raising side b and withdrawing lugs c c.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a horse-collar fastener, the combination'with sleeves secured to the ends of the provided with lugs to enter said slots, and self f acting keys carried by one of said plates to enter the slots in the other of said plates and confine the lugs therein, substantially as described.

3. In a horse-collar fastener the combination with sleeves secured to the ends of the collar of a plate a, fitting in one of said sleeves and provided with slots, an abutment lo and In testimony whereofla'ix my signature in a plete b in the other of said sleeves, said presence of two Witnesses. plate b provided with slotted oasings h, 7L, and

11ookslmped lugs o, c, springs g, g, in the eas- GEORGE W. HARROP. 5 ings h, h, :L plate f, also located in said slotted Witnesses:

casings, and keys d, d, secured to said plate, C. E. MILLER,

substantially as described. J0 WV. JENKINS. 

